The Castle of Chillon on the northern shore of Lake Geneva, outside of Montreux, Switzerland. The Castle was built by the Savoys from the 11th to the 16th Centuries to control access to the strategic Grand St. Bernard Pass over the Swiss Alps, connecting their territories which then straddled what is, today, southeast France, western Switzerland and northern Italy.
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